Are you under any significant stress?' one of the cardiologists asked me during rounds the next morning. I stared at him ...

Heart health is influenced by several lifestyle factors, including diet, exercise, weight, stress and sleep quality. A new study explores the effect of one of these factors.

New Swinburne research has found that psychological stress may lead to higher blood pressure and therefore increase the risk ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD While stress doesn't directly cause heart attacks, it can cause symptoms, such as high blood pressure, that lead to heart disease, indirectly increasing ...

A discussion regarding the link between anger, stress and cardiovascular events with Dr Viola Vaccarino and Dr Elizabeth ...

Teams meetings all day, (girl) dinner at your desk, and the occasional "self-care" Sunday. You're probably tracking your ...

Journal reference: Lurie, J. M., et al. (2024) Psychological stress, cardiovascular disease and somatic pain in asylum seekers: a retrospective cross-sectional study.

Stress is a normal biological occurrence; the fight-or-flight response is part of human survival. But, sometimes, it's too much to take, and you have an acute reaction when your heart rate ...

Identifying a solid link between a reactivated virus and heart disease is important because of the prevalence of EBV, a human herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis and several ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be one of the leading causes of death in the United States, claiming over 929,000 lives annually—enough to fill 222 Wrigley Fields. Among the numerous ...

The link between stress and heart disease has long been recognized, and researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston found that relationship existed among nearly 2,000 Boston-area ...